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Pretty much anything Pine Barrens related is welcome!

There absolutely is interest!!!

Scott, are you going back to wild yeast this year? What are you using to sanitize? Star-san? I sanitize my carboys by mixing up 5 gallons worth of Star-San, siphoning it into another carboy, syphoning it back again, and then once more. Overkill but i like running it through my siphon a few...

So for sure I don't intend to try to change the culture or how the site is run at all. Honestly, of all of the things that I'm most proud of by making NJPB is the civility here. I know we all come from all kinds of backgrounds and ideas but it's nice to have a space where we can all talk about...

I'll see if that's something that I can add.

I know I've been the world's worst website owner and the best absentee landlord in history. Today as I was driving I got to thinking about what could be done to breathe some new life into the site - or if that's something we even need. I feel like we're on a solid footing for 2016, but since...

I have learned my lesson.

Yikes

According to Ellis Island records, Richard Emmett came over from Great Britain from Liverpool on the Issac Webb. He was 18 when he came over, so it's pretty impressive that he was able to buy anything so soon after getting off the boat. More info on the ship.

The plot thickens. There's a Garret Hyres that had a tavern application in Jackson in 1844 and the record has a note: 1846 "Kept as such for past forty years". I requested that record as well. He has an application for one in 1814 for Freehold Township. Jackson was carved out of parts of...

The Monmouth County Clerk has searchable records of tavern applications from 1736-1919. (Ocean County didn't exist until 1850.) There's no record of Garret Hines but two hits for Joseph Mount having two applications for one (or more) in 1844 and 1849. No mention of an establishment name, but I...

i've always wondered what was up with that place name.

There's some kind of underground tank with an exposed pipe that smells like fuel at the one by Mary Ann Forge, although the actual sawmill base is a little further down the road.

Weren't the later ones gasoline powered, or am I just imagining things?

Here's a pic of the house ruins from back in 2002 or 2003. Taken on my old Sony camera that stored photos on a floppy disk. We had the very first "get together" for the site there.

Can we just not go there please?

To the left is four gallons of plain apple cider, and to the right is one and a half gallons of apple cranberry mulled spice cider. Fingers crossed for success this time.

I've never heard of this place. Super interesting.

Well, I couldn't help myself. I picked up 5 gallons of apple cider from Solebury Orchards and I'm going to try to make hard cider this year. Maybe I'll be able to drink that fast enough.

I still have bottles left from my first batch in 2019 otherwise I'd probably make some more.